Ernst Bamberger

Dr.-Bamberger-Haus , seat of the Rendsburg Jewish Museum

Ernst Bamberger (born April 30, 1885 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 6, 1941 in Remmels ) was a German doctor of Jewish origin. The Dr.-Bamberger-Haus in his adopted home town of Rendsburg is named after him. a. the Jewish Museum Rendsburg is housed.

In 1910 he was to defend his dissertation The Scleroedem and its relations with the Sclerodermien at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg to the Dr. med. PhD . The son of a wealthy Jewish businessman was baptized as a Protestant in 1921 and has practiced as a doctor in the Schleswig-Holstein district town of Rendsburg since 1922 . There he was socially involved, including a friendship with the later National Socialist district administrator and district president Wilhelm Hamkens .

Because of his Jewish origin, his medical license was withdrawn in May 1934 and his license to practice medicine was withdrawn in 1938 , and his surgical clinic was taken over by an “ Aryan ” doctor. He had already withdrawn to the village of Remmels, his wife's birthplace, when he was forced to wear the Jewish star in 1941 . The attempt to obtain a visa to travel to Sweden failed.

He took his own life in 1941 because he had been refused entry to Sweden and he feared deportation. After the suicide, Bamberger was buried in Hohenwestedt as a Christian. In 1985 the former Rendsburg synagogue was named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Edward Hoop , History of the City of Rendsburg. Verlag Heinrich Möller Sons, Rendsburg 1989, ISBN 3-87550-114-4 , p. 593.

literature

• Felicitas Glade: Ernst Bamberger, Wilhelm Hamkens. A friendship in Mittelholstein , Rendsburger Jahrbuch, supplements, Volume 1, 2000, ISBN 3-89811-835-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Bamberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Portrait of Ernst Bamberger on the homepage of the Jewish Museum
• Bamberger biography in the Virtual Museum (vimu)